it was bush and clinton who did it. it started under bush in 1989 and. 300,000 civil servants, down from 1 million at the time. if the bulk of the active duty force structure, the civil service, would have to keep in mind is that it is inevitable because we are in a drawdown. that is about special interests. what happens to those people, and how jobs are fulfilled and the american economy depends on how the american economy is doing. not what the defense bar and is doing. if you have a growing economy creating jobs, reemployment happens quickly, new jobs created. if you increase the flow of money in the economy by reducing federal borrowing, that creates jobs. you have to view the economy as a system. you cannot say, defense dollars down, jobs down. guest: if you reduce the spending on the domestic side to radically it, too soon, what you're looking at is a second recession. the twitter comment is mostly right. if you did it over a protected. of time in a smoother curve, you might be able to ameliorate many of these job